English Language revision notes

WAEC and JAMB · SS2 and SS3 · 10 topics

Every topic below is written for the WAEC and JAMB syllabus: what you need to know, the key terms, a worked example with the steps shown, and the mistake that costs candidates the mark.

• Parts of Speech and Their Functions Every other grammar question in the paper rests on this: lexis and structure items, the grammatical name…
• Tenses, Concord and Common Errors Concord items appear in the objective paper every single year and the same errors bleed into the essay, where…
• Sentence Structure: Phrases and Clauses The comprehension section asks you to give the grammatical name of an expression and state its function, and…
• Punctuation and Capitalisation Mechanical accuracy is a named mark in the WASSCE essay, and punctuation is most of it. Beyond the marks, a…
• Vocabulary Development Section B of the objective paper is almost entirely vocabulary: nearest in meaning, opposite in meaning, and…
• Figures of Speech and Literary Style Comprehension and oral questions regularly ask you to name a figure of speech and say what it means or…
• Comprehension Comprehension rewards accurate reading far more than fine writing, and almost every lost mark comes from…
• Summary Writing Summary is the most mechanical section of the paper and the easiest to score once you know how the marks…
• Essay and Letter Writing The essay is the heaviest single question on the paper, usually marked out of fifty across content…
• Oral English Test of Orals carries its own section of the objective paper, and it is the part most candidates give up on…